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November 19, 2022
Link: https://armedwithabook.com/black-licorice-by-elaina-battista-parsons/ On February 7, 2023 my debut Young Adult novel, BLACK LICORICE (INKED IN GRAY PRESS) will be released into the world. Freddi Birdoni loses her first best […]
October 11, 2022
I hope October has brought you more treats than tricks. I don’t have a bunch to say or report this month. I’m waist deep into a […]
September 20, 2022
Dear Subscribers, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to give back to society in the best ways I know how. Teaching children how to read […]
August 15, 2022
Before I share some fun content from my project in progress, I’d like to announce. and I cannot even believe it….that my YOUNG ADULT novel called […]
July 22, 2022
Colorful pencils spread over white paper was my personal pre party in my dorm room throughout four years at Rider University. At the time I didn’t […]
July 9, 2022
The 1980s from the eyes of a child, was a storm of colors, trinkets, stickers, headbands, toy figurines, fringe, plastic bracelets, Garbage Pail Kids, and shimmery […]
June 22, 2022
The Texture of Voices Music is part of most people’s childhoods. I know that. I can’t say all but based on my forty-plus years on Earth, […]
May 4, 2022
Send Me Your Thunder in 50 Words Is May bringing you flowers? Longer work hours? Soapy showers? Our lilacs are in bloom, and my lord, are […]
March 21, 2022
When I googled synonyms for “Spring, the season”, the phrase Blackberry Winter appeared, and now I officially will never be the same. I love it. This photo is one I took last […]
January 26, 2022
Winter 2022 Dear Subscribers, I’d like to reinvent my newsletter and blog for 2022 as one less about me– since I’m in a “many saucepans on […]
December 5, 2021
December Hello friends! I won’t weigh you down with heavy paragraphs and flowery text. I will keep it savory and punctuated this month. What’s Simmering […]
October 1, 2021
We have five senses…but it’s recently come to my attention that the novels I read (and write), smell truly pervades the setting. Think about your own favorite place. Now when you […]